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Article #262GDB 3.2 won't read cc -g output on a Vax
From: Andrew Thomas
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1989 19:32
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1989 19:32
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I'm running GDB 3.2 on a uVaxII under Ultrix 2.0. I am unable to use
gdb to debug files output by cc. This bug does not occur on a Sun 3
running SUNOS 3.x
Script started on Mon Sep 18 13:30:00 1989
% cat ttt.c
main()
{
printf ("hello world\n");
}
% cc -g ttt.c
% gdb a.out
GDB 3.2, Copyright (C) 1988 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for GDB; type "info warranty" for details.
GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
under certain conditions; type "info copying" to see the conditions.
Reading symbol data from /tmp/a.out...gdb: Bad symbol type 0x1e encountered in gdb scan
% exit
%
script done on Mon Sep 18 13:30:32 1989
I assume this is the fault of Ultrix's cc compiler. Is there a fix?
--
Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu Systems Design Eng. University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!andrewt From: andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) Newsgroups: gnu.gdb.bug Subject: GDB 3.2 won't read cc -g output on a Vax Message-ID: <ANDREWT.89Sep18153239@watsnew.waterloo.edu> Date: 18 Sep 89 19:32:39 GMT Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu Distribution: world Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 27